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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Steam Engine: Transportation 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the steam engine and transportation in the nineteenth century.
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Other

Graduating Engineer: Questions With Petroleum Engineers

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains interviews with two different petroleum engineers, covering topics such as job satisfaction and advice to new graduates.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Full Steam Ahead: The Steam Engine and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of how the steam engine transformed the railroad industry and played crucial roles in the Industrial Revolution and westward expansion.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 1152: Mac Beth

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay on MacBeth by John H. Lienhard from the Engines of Our Ingenuity series. Essay is available in both print and audio versions.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Leaning Tower: Where It Stands Today

For Students 9th - 10th
Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa give way to gravity? In this interview from the NOVA Web site, engineer John Burland relates the difficult job of saving the tower.
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Patrick McSherry

Spanish American War Centennial: Assistant Engineer Joseph Mason Reeves: Oregon: Letter

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of letters written home by Joseph Mason Reeves who served aboard the Battleship OREGON during the Spanish-American War. Reeves was a crewmember of the U.S.S. OREGON as it cruised around South America and during the Battle of...
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Chapter Vii: The Attacks

For Students 9th - 10th
This page describes the destruction of the cities after the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The information comes from Chapter 7 of the book The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Manhattan Engineer District, published...
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

For Students 9th - 10th
This online book provides a detailed account of the U.S. creation of the atomic bomb, the attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the aftermath. Written by The Manhattan Engineer District, a military committee, in 1946.
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Other

Media History Digital Library: Technical Journals Collection (1916 1965)

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of original journals that focus on the technology behind motion pictures, covering cinematography, photography, projection engineering, etc.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Science, Religion, John Tyndall

For Students 9th - 10th
Radio-program transcript of Irish-born Victorian physicist John Tyndall's ideas of the intersection of science and religion.
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Physorg.com: Technology: Engineering: Robo Copters in Marines' Future

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the possibility of using robotic helicopters, summoned by a soldier's digital handheld, to assist in a combat area.
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Other

Rubber Stichting: Engineering With Natural Rubber

For Students 11th - 12th
High level discussion of engineering-related formulas of rubber engineering.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Engines of Our Imagination: Tyndall on Parallel Roads

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about John Tyndall's belief in the importance of observation in answering questions posed by science.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Mary Somerville (1780 1872 Ce)

For Students 9th - 10th
The self-educated mathematician is the subject of this biography. Read about her life and accomplishments in the field of mathematics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides the complete text of Shakespeare's works. Content also includes a search engine (for looking up words and/or phrases), a chronological and alphabetical listing of his plays, a collection...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Age of Prosperity

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Yale University

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read historical documents from before the 18th century to the present. Providing "Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy," this website can be browsed by historical period or searched via search engine.
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Other

U.s. Army: A Report on the Eniac

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a copy of the original report on the ENIAC high-speed electronic computing machine, from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. Includes a detailed and technical description of how the...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: A Literary Survey: Archive

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This search engine provides access to more than 3000 items including visual art, audio files, primary source materials, and additional texts supporting and enriching the understanding of American Literature. RI.9-10.9 US Documents,...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Hotchkiss Civil War Era Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of 341 Civil War Era Maps by Jedediah Hotchkiss, a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army. Most of the maps are of places in Virginia.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: John C. Polanyi on Being a Scientist: A Personal View

For Students 9th - 10th
John Polanyi, 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, published this essay in 2000. In it, he discusses threats to democracy in the form of weapons, and how scientists today must remember their higher purpose, and use their technical expertise...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Boomtimes: 20th Century Mining Mojave Desert

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore twentieth-century mining in the Mojave Desert.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Environmental Preservation Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to environmental preservation in the Progressive Era.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878.

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